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> The only rule I ever tried to enforce on my two daughters as teenagers
> (in contrast to miscellaneous rules that I might or might not have
> mouthed) was "Don't bring contraband into the house and get me in
> trouble with the cops!" They both turned out fine.
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> Carrol
When my best friend from college, red-diaper baby Eric was 15 or so, his folks told him, now don't go buying pot on the street, just take what you need from our stash. I've smoked hash w/ his folks. Eric, turned out just fine, he's a lefty lawyer in a certain county well known for growing certain commodities. Hasn't gotten stoned in good decade at least now.
Other children of hippie parents, that I know of from Santa Cruz yrs. and autobiographies, didn't. And two studies of former civil rights anti- Vietnam War activists, one I've read, "Getting Saved From The Sixties, " by Tipton and a newer one, I've been looking for used, "From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era, " by Stephen A. Kent, as well as hearing of examples like the leader in Line of March that turned into a crackhead or the desent of Marlene Dixon of the Democratic Workers Party into a raging alcoholic, make one aware of the need to integrate and balance the various levels and meanings of one's existence, to not so totally politicize one's whole being, so that one is 24-7, as Mark Rudd put it in the new documentary on the Weather Underground, thinking and feeling nothing else except the torture and oppression of the victims of our Empire. Absolute self-abnegation and sacrifice, will in due course lead to abuses of authority, power tripping and as a paper I just read by Jo Freeman on 70's feminism, trashing of dedicated cadre and the withering away of the Movement. http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm
-- Michael Pugliese